South Beach
South Beach is a beach in California, at a recorded elevation of 4 m. Mount Tamalpais West Peak stands 778 m to the east-southeast, 23 miles off. The nearest named place is Point Reyes Beach, a beach 0.4 miles away.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 4 m
How to reach it
Named places within 25 miles
- Tomales Bay State Park: 5.1 mi
- Limatour Estero Reserve: 5.2 mi
- Second Valley Path and Open Space: 6.2 mi
- Marconi Conference Center State Historic Park: 6.3 mi
- Marconi Conference Center & Historic Park: 6.4 mi
- Mount Vision: 5.3 mi
- Point Reyes Hill: 5.7 mi
- Mount Wittenberg: 8.9 mi
- Walker Peak: 9.2 mi
- Echo Rock: 9.7 mi
- Whale Ballet (Totem 6 of 8): 16.0 mi
- Scuba Brown: 16.8 mi
- Frolicking Dolphin: 17.0 mi
- Poseidon: 17.0 mi
- Spawn: 17.1 mi
- Point Reyes National Seashore: 5.0 mi
- Tomales Bay Ecological Reserve: 7.6 mi
- French Ranch Open Space Preserve: 17.0 mi
- Maurice Thorner Memorial Open Space Preserve: 17.3 mi
- Gary Giacomini Open Space Preserve: 17.4 mi
- Probably repair location of Golden Hind June 1579: 3.4 mi
- Golden Hinde landing: 4.1 mi
- Francis Drake memorial: 4.3 mi
- Francis Drake: 6.5 mi
- Point Reyes Lifeboat Station: 6.6 mi
- Point Reyes Beach: 0.4 mi
- North Beach: 0.8 mi
- Drakes Beach: 4.4 mi
- Sunshine Beach: 4.5 mi
- Kehoe Beach: 4.7 mi
- Cypress Tree Tunnel: 1.5 mi
- Point Reyes Shipwrecks: 6.6 mi
- Tule Elk Reserve, Pierce Pt., Pt. Reyes NS: 6.9 mi
- Kule Loklo: 9.7 mi
- Leo T. Cronin Fish Viewing Area: 15.5 mi
- Bear Valley Picnic area: 10.0 mi
- Redwood Grove Group Picnic Area: 13.9 mi
- Azalea Picnic Area: 14.0 mi
- Irving Group Picnic Area: 14.5 mi
- Hunt Camp: 17.3 mi
- TRACEN Community Gardens: 14.7 mi
- Inn at the Tides Sculpture Garden: 17.1 mi
- Ren Brown Gallery Zen Garden: 17.7 mi
- San Geronimo Valley Community Garden: 17.7 mi
- McNear Community Gardens: 20.5 mi
- The Jack Mason Museum of West Marin History: 6.5 mi
- Historic USCG Boathouse: 6.6 mi
- The Phoenix Collection Tea Museum: 15.6 mi
- Bolinas Museum: 19.9 mi
- Marin Museum of the American Indian: 20.2 mi
- Alamere Falls: 13.9 mi
- Stairstep Falls: 14.1 mi
- Roy's Riffles: 17.7 mi
- Little Carson Falls: 19.7 mi
- Cascade Falls: 20.4 mi
- Crystal Springs: 14.8 mi
- Broko Spring: 21.3 mi
- Rock Springs: 23.1 mi
- Worn Springs: 23.2 mi
- Red Rock Spring: 23.2 mi
- Point Reyes Light Station: 6.8 mi
- Paint Storage: 6.9 mi
- Point Reyes Lighthouse Visitor Center: 6.9 mi
- Power House: 7.0 mi
- Transformer Building: 7.0 mi
- Tomales Bluff: 10.5 mi
- Rock Fort: 23.4 mi
- Vent 5: 24.2 mi
- Keyhole: 11.3 mi
- Temple: 11.8 mi
- Steep Ravine Hot Spring: 23.3 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 24.1 miles of South Beach. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mount Tamalpais West Peak | ESE 119° | 778 m | 23.4 mi |
| Mount Tamalpais Middle Peak | ESE 118° | 744 m | 23.7 mi |
| Ballou Point | ESE 123° | 612 m | 22.6 mi |
| Twin Knolls | ESE 122° | 597 m | 21.9 mi |
| Big Rock Ridge | E 96° | 575 m | 20.1 mi |
| Pine Mountain | ESE 114° | 543 m | 19.0 mi |
| Mount Tamalpais West Point | ESE 120° | 527 m | 23.8 mi |
| Loma Alta | ESE 103° | 484 m | 20.1 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:16 | 18:49 | 19:24 |
| June solstice | 05:50 | 19:59 | 20:39 |
| September equinox | 07:00 | 18:36 | 19:10 |
| December solstice | 07:25 | 16:15 | 16:56 |
Local time (America/Los_Angeles).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Jan–Nov.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 50 | 51 | 51 | 52 | 53 | 55 | 57 | 57 | 58 | 56 | 53 | 50 |
| Precip in | 5.3 | 6.0 | 3.9 | 2.2 | 1.2 | 0.5 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 1.8 | 2.9 | 4.6 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Bodega 6 WSW, 17 mi away.
The nearest NOAA station publishes daily tide predictions.
NOAA CO-OPS station Inverness, Tomales Bay, CA, 6 miaway — today’s predictions live there.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidataOpenStreetMap element way/274178176
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